. "The Twixt Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in November at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. The Twixt Stakes, is open to fillies three years old and up and is run at one mile (eight furlongs) on the dirt. An ungraded stakes race, it offers a purse of $50,000. The race was named in honor of the filly Twixt, a Maryland-bred Champion each year that she raced, from 1972 through 1975. She was owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Merryman and Mrs. John M. Franklin."@en . . . . .